• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Lowering 2011 TE449 front forks

MotoXotica

MotoXotica

Husqvarna
AA Class
this posting is for a friend Kevin,please help out my friend if you can.he has a a 2011 te 449 with the 46mm KYB forks.Looking to lower the forks 40mm and no one makes a 420mm length front spring. We have lowered the shock 1/2" with a spacer. Vertically challenged rider needs to know! Stock front spring is 460mm long. Fork has no spacers to remove. I found 1/2" spacers at hardware store to put behind the rebound piston, so the spring is the issue. Cannon racecraft can custom make the spring for $175 but he was looking for something a little cheaper. RATE NEEDS TO BE .43K for his 135lb weight.

Also, there is a piston like stop ring assembly past the spring guide which he can't figue how to remove. There is not any visible circlips on this assembly and he can't figure out how to remove it. he has not heated it up yet but it has to come out to remove the damper shaft to put the lowering spacers in the cartridge.
Forks are the latest KYB 48U open cartridge type.
he Loves the bike but paddling up a loose hill is not effective, with his short 30" legs.thanx,dan
 
Just a suggestion, maybe these guys can help. When they were open in Phoenix they lowered two of my short buddy's bikes and were helpful over the phone. Try calling the IL location. Check their support page, some good stuff there for all of us. I was just reading their suspension setup .pdf.
http://mx-tech.com/?id=support
 
Nick at Provalve cut my springs and refinished the ends (beautifully!) when he lowered my fork. Note shortening the spring makes it stiffer. You might send him your spring and your requirements. provalvemx.com
 
MotoXotica, any updates here? I have the same inseam and would like the TE449, but can't even tiptoe the bike. What is the max the bike can be lowered?
 
Any updates on this?
I have the same problem with a wr 125
Thinking about the kuba link in the rear and some kind off lowering trick for the front fork (spacer, shorter spring etc...)
If this doesn't work I'll change the bike to a Sherco x ride (seat at 850 mm)
 
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